Jessica Yu
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 14, 1966, New York City, New York, USA
- Movies
- 17
Jessica Yu (Chinese: 虞琳敏; pinyin: Yú Línmǐn) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows.
Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based on Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been Misconception (2014), ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory".
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2008 | Capturing Reality | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | A Very Jonas Christmas Movie | Director |
| 2023 | Quiz Lady | Director |
| 2017 | Maria Bamford: Old Baby | Director |
| 2016 | Foreveryone.net | Director |
| 2014 | Misconception | Director, Producer |
| 2012 | Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas | Director |
| 2012 | Meet Mr Toilet | Director |
| 2011 | Last Call at the Oasis | Director |
| 2008 | Ping Pong Playa | Director, Writer |
| 2007 | Protagonist | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | In the Realms of the Unreal | Director, Writer |
| 1998 | The Living Museum | Director |
| 1996 | Men of Reenaction | Director |
| 1996 | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1996 | Better Late | Director, Writer |
| 1993 | Sour Death Balls | Director |
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